Stakes Winning Son of Corona Cartel, Rip Tide to Tate Farms for 2020
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The son of leading-living sire Corona Cartel has won or placed in 16 of 20 career starts and earned $123,283. He won the Par-A-Dice Stakes at Delta Downs this year, completing the 330 yards in :16.362 seconds, just missing the track record while equaling a 107 speed index.
Rip Tide was second in the Mr Jess Perry Derby at Ruidoso Downs and the Esplanade Stakes at the Fair Grounds Race Course, and a finalist in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Super Derby, Grade 1 Vessels Maturity and Z Wayne Griffin Director's Invitational-Div.1.
His sire Corona Cartel SI 107 ($557,142), the #2 all-time leading sire of money earners, has sired 177 stakes winners, 9 champions with earnings in excess of $62.3 million dollars. His top performers include Blues Girl Too SI 104 (World Champion Racing American QH, $2,032,328, Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Teller Cartel SI 108 (champion, $1,212,471, All American Quarter Horse Futurity-G1, etc.), Five Bar Cartel SI 91 (champion, $1,068,825, Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, etc.), Kvn Corona SI 95 (champion twice, $868,077, Ed Burke Million Futurity-G1, etc.), etc.
Rip Tide hails from one of the leading female-sire producing line's in the industry. His dam, the stakes winning and track record setting First Down Dash mare Little Surfer SI 104 ($102,749), is a sister champion Ocean Runaway SI 105, champion Wave Carver SI 104, stakes winners Wave Her Down SI 95, Trisk SI 102, and Aquafina SI 99, and stakes-placed Sir Runaway Dash SI 97, Bring The Bling SI 97and Seaside SI 90.
Little Surfer is the dam of 17 ROM, 14 winners, three black type including 2019 Rainbow Futurity(G1) winner Uncle D SI 96 (4 wins in 6 starts, $682,965 at 2), Rip Tide SI 107 (stakes winner above), Grade-1 placed Call Me Cole SI 93 ($298,122), Heritage Place Futurity(G1) finalist Corona Surfer ($37,944 at 2), etc. All are full sibling to Rip Tide.
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Runaway Wave is also the granddam or great-granddam to numerous stakes winners including Aqua Flash SI 96 ($204,518), Justified Si 102 ($95,630), Corona Springs SI 106 ($93,963), Seaduction SI 91 ($59,383 at 2), Why SI 89 ($44,657 at 2, 2019), etc.
For additional information or breeding contracts call Stephen Tate, Farm Manager at 337-658-8283.